LIVE THREAD: DEMCON -- DAY 3

www.freerepublic.com | July 28, 2004

[Howlin]

Live Convention Video, 7 - 9 p.m. ET
• Jesse Jackson
• Mayor Martin O'Malley (Baltimore)
• N.M. Secretary of Education Veronica Garcia
• Rep. Greg Meeks (N.Y.)
• Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.)
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio)
• Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.)
• Retired Marine Lt. Col. Steve Brozak, candidate for House in New Jersey
• Al Sharpton
• Sen. Bob Graham (Fla.)
• Gov. Ed Rendell (Pa.)
• Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.)

Live Convention Video, 9 - 11 p.m. ET
• Gov. Jennifer Granholm (Mich.)
• Retired Lt. General Claudia Kennedy
• Retired General John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Cate Edwards
• Elizabeth Edwards
• Sen. John Edwards
• Presidential Nomination Roll Call

[pulaskibush]

This is suppossed to be a positive convention.

In other news, Susan is melting down over an abortion shirt and planned parenthood.

[mylife]

awwww comon Shaaaaaggggggnnnnn.....errrr Cybie

[CitizenJ]

Melloncamp. Not only from my home state but my hometown! I was born in that same small town. I have watched every convention since I was a kid and I am a delegate this year in NYC but I cannot watch the Dems. Even while drinking.

[hole_n_one]

Dukakis being interviewed on the convention floor....CNN

[Choose Ye This Day]

I guess he wants us to invade Saudi Arabia.

[NormsRevenge]

exactly, the dems are wailing away with Bush with a dagger in one hand and slitting their own throats with the other. sweet. ;-)

[woodyinscc]

I wish he had kept on going for another half hour. It really says a lot for the dims, giving Sharpton a prime time speech slot.<sarcasm

[afropick]

This will go down as the Buchanan moment for the convention. If the other outlets wont show, it will defintely be on Fox.

[lainie]

Dukakakaka on CNN. He wants to know if they all hate Massassachusetts why all the rich families send their kids to school here.


[BARF]

[cyncooper]

She was glowing and looked very happy.

Sowing the seeds of hate evidently is like a tonic to the old girl.

Note next time you see pics from the Wellstone memorial--she has never looked so radiant---but when considering the context and circumstances (and here with the rhetoric at the time I saw her) one can see what lights her fire.

[cyborg]

LOL :D

[AmericanMade1776]

It is a shame. I guess that is what makes a Democrat a Democrat, they are just weak, and easily lead by the stupid.

[StriperSniper]

Not anymore!

[OXENinFLA]

"Osama Bin FORGOTEN"............................

[cyborg]

LOL They should ask him about bunnysuit gate.

[NormsRevenge]

osama bin forgotten ? they are making a big mistake letting this go out like this.

so much for the no bashing..

[finnman69]

Sharpton's most controversial incident came in 1987 when Al Sharpton, C. Vernon Mason, and Alton Maddox acted as advisor for Tawana Brawley. Brawley was a black teenager from Wappingers Falls, New York who claimed that she was raped and sodomized for several days by six white police officer before being covered in excrement and placed in a trash bag. These claims were later proven to be completely untrue. Following the incident, although Brawley refused to speak to the media or authorities, Sharpton and the other advisors began to make wild claims. Sharpton said that to cooperate with the state Attorney General Robert Abrams, a Jew, would be "to sit down with Mr. Hitler". All three implied that Mario Cuomo was tied to organized crime. Sharpton has never recanted any of the allegations he made surrounding the incident and maintains that he has always believed Brawley.

In 1998 Sharpton was ordered to pay Steven Pagones $65,000 in damages for slander for explicitly implicating the young prosecutor in the rape of Tawana Brawley. Before the trial Sharpton had said, "We stated openly that Steven Pagones ... did it ... if we're lying, sue us"[1]. Sharpton refused to pay. In January 2001 after Pagones had collected only $15,000 from Sharpton's garnished salary, a group of wealthy African Americans stepped in to pay.

In 1995 Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish owned stored, is picketed by Sharpton's National Action Network when it raises the rent on a black subtenant. Sharpton claims "We will not stand by, and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." On December 8, one of the protesters enters Freddy's, shoots four employees, then sets the store on fire, killing seven. Sharpton denies his involvement had anything to do with the incident.

[Choose Ye This Day]

"Osama been forgotten"

More like, Osama buried under twenty tons of rubble in Tora Bora.

[ride the whirlwind]

Revum' Al on CNN now.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Bob Graham Cracker: "Osama bin Forgotten"

Hey, assmunch, we're still in Afghanistan.